No pondering when engines are white?

[Henri Spijkerman]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems pondering does not show at all on my v.201-non pi when engines are having the white pieces. I do think it ponders because some replies are instantly and the temperature is higher, but I can't see the process on the display. This goes for all engines.

Am I the only one?

Greetings,

Henri

[Dirk]

Hi Henri,

nice to see that some users still use Picochess despite all the new chess computers which came out in the last months ;-)

I could reproduce your problem.

Your observation is correct: if you are in "Ponder on" mode and Pico plays white the rolling display will not be active which is a bug but the real pondering is not affected by this (just a display thing).

I have fixed this and updated my Github repository.

You will have to replace the display.py file in /picochess/dgt on your system or update via "sudo git pull" the repository on your system if you have cloned it or wait until someone will create a new image.

Have fun...

Dirk

[Henri Spijkerman]

Hi Dirk,

Please give me a link to your updated 'display-py' file. Tried to find it, but nope.

I have more observations to come, the webserver needs some adjusting for sure, so a new version of Picochess is nigh I hope.... :)

Picochess is really the best chessprogram I know! And yes, there are a lot of new chess computers coming out, but nothing beats a DGT-board with a Pi yet. The already much acclaimed (and despised) DGT Centaur has a mere Pi Zero on board, need I say more?

Greetings,

Henri

P.S. By the way, if you are the 'voice' that speaks chessmoves to me on a daily basis, thanks for that. You have the most pleasant voice in computerchess. Being a voice-over myself, I know what I am talking about (for once).

[Dirk]

https://github.com/tosca07/picochess/blob/master/dgt/display.py

I fully agree with you regarding picochess as the best chess computer I can think of...

Dirk

[Scally]

Thanks Dirk, nice to hear from you I hope you’re feeling better.

Henri, if you look in /opt/picochess/AUTHORS you will see who provided the voices:

Voices:
Alan Cooper: English
Christina ten Thij-Mucciaccio: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch,
Jan-Niclas Hartl : German
Luigi Vogliobene: Italian
Santiago Torres: Spanish
DirkJan Dekker: Dutch

Recently Bingen Markes provided Basque voices from Ibon and himself, these have yet to be officially added to PicoChess.

Which voice do you use?


Al.

[Henri Spijkerman]

I am relatively new to Picochess and still haven't found my way around I guess....

Is 'Dirk' DirkJan or is there another 'Dirk' in Picochess? It is the DirkJan's voice I am using (with pleasure as already stated).

Henri

[Dirk]

Nope - it’s not me!

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[Scally]

Yes that’s Dirk Jan, otherwise known as DJ

Here’s voices.ini which is the built voice selection menu:

[it]
[[luigi]]
small = luigi
medium = Luigi
large = Luigi
[[christina]]
small = christ
medium = Christin
large = Christina
[es]
[[christina]]
small = christ
medium = Christin
large = Christina
[[santiago]]
small = santia
medium = Santiago
large = Santiago
[en]
[[al]]
small = al
medium = Al
large = Al
[[christina]]
small = christ
medium = Christin
large = Christina
[fr]
[[christina]]
small = christ
medium = Christin
large = Christina
[nl]
[[christina]]
small = christ
medium = Christin
large = Christina
[[dirkjan]]
small = dirkja
medium = DirkJan
large = DirkJan
[de]
[[christina]]
small = christ
medium = Christin
large = Christina
[[janniclas]]
small = jannic
medium = Jannicla
large = Janniclas


Al.